Data Analytics Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Analytics Engineer
UK

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 527 601
Rank change year-on-year -33 +74 +200
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 22 16 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.045% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.048% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £463 £429 £425
25th Percentile £491 £472 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £617 £630 £654
90th Percentile £625 - £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 - £488

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Analytics Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Analytics Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England -28 22 £575 +4.55% 1
London -2 15 £603 +9.55% 1
Work from Home +4 11 £544 +20.83% 1
UK excluding London - 5 £513 - 1
South East - 4 £494 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Data Analytics Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Analytics
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (77.27%) SQL
3 14 (63.64%) AWS
4 13 (59.09%) Azure
4 13 (59.09%) Data Analytics
5 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 12 (54.55%) Databricks
5 12 (54.55%) Terraform
6 11 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (50.00%) Power BI
6 11 (50.00%) Power Platform
7 10 (45.45%) GCP
8 9 (40.91%) Data Quality
9 8 (36.36%) Data Engineering
9 8 (36.36%) DevOps
9 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
10 7 (31.82%) Agile
10 7 (31.82%) AI
10 7 (31.82%) Apache Spark
10 7 (31.82%) BigQuery
10 7 (31.82%) Data Architecture
10 7 (31.82%) Data Lake
10 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (31.82%) Kafka
10 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
10 7 (31.82%) Observability
11 6 (27.27%) Data Governance

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (22.73%) Apache
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Azure
3 11 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 10 (45.45%) GCP
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (18.18%) Collibra
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (4.55%) dbt
8 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.55%) IaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Power BI
2 7 (31.82%) BigQuery
2 7 (31.82%) Data Lake
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (18.18%) Metadata
3 4 (18.18%) Mixpanel
3 4 (18.18%) OLAP
3 4 (18.18%) OLTP
4 3 (13.64%) Big Data
5 2 (9.09%) Data Mining
5 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 2 (9.09%) Tableau
6 1 (4.55%) Looker
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
6 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) PySpark
3 4 (18.18%) Great Expectations
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Avro
5 1 (4.55%) Faiss
5 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Pricing Data
2 1 (4.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Analytics
2 13 (59.09%) Data Analytics
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 7 (31.82%) Agile
6 7 (31.82%) AI
6 7 (31.82%) Data Architecture
6 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
6 7 (31.82%) Observability
7 6 (27.27%) Data Governance
7 6 (27.27%) ETL
7 6 (27.27%) LLM
7 6 (27.27%) Validation
8 5 (22.73%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (77.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) R
5 3 (13.64%) Java
5 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (22.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Databricks
2 5 (22.73%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Facebook
3 1 (4.55%) Instagram
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) TikTok
3 1 (4.55%) YouTube